August 31st, 2010

“What the Attorney General suspects that Dr. Mann did that was false or fraudulent in obtaining the funds from the Commonwealth is simply not stated.” – VA County Circuit Judge Paul Peeatross Jr. in ruling rejecting Ken Cuccinelli’s attempts to subpoena documents from U-Va to “prove” his suspictions that Dr. Michael Mann falsified climate change data in order to obtain research grants

Ken Cuccinelli’s latest legal crusade isn’t going as planned:

A Virginia judge has dismissed his civil subpoena investigative demand.

One doesn’t need facts, evidence, or detail to convince the pliant right wing mass,

But try that same approach in a court of law and you look like an ass.